"The unbearably autocratic tactics of the government towards the Anarchists (going even to the extent of confiscating the wreaths on the Kropotkin grave for use at other funerals) is unquestionably the result of the general policy of the government, which is exclusively controlled by the Communist Party, in regard to Anarchism, ...forcing us to raise our voices in loud protest against the panicky-brutal suppression of the Anarchist movement by the Bolshevik Government." (Protest of the Moscow Anarcho-Syndicalist Organizations, April 10, 1921; G.P. Maximoff, The Guillotine at work)